The 7.1 kernel has been released
Linus has released the 7.1 kernel."
So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon whereI am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time -just not in the regular timezone."
Significant changes in 7.1 includethe removal of support for some old 486-based architectures,some new clone() flags makingprocess management easier,BPF support for io_uring,zero-copy-I/O support for the ublk user-space blockdriver,initial (incomplete) sub-scheduler supportin sched_ext,more swapping improvements,a completely rewritten NTFSimplementation,and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part1, part2) for details.